Tuesday, July 7, 2009

things i am sick of (television edition!)

1) Character A: "Well, there's only one person stopping you from getting that job/promotion/girl/donut..."
Character B (squints and furrows his eyebrows): "Who?"
Character A (wise/knowing look): "..... You."

2) When a character is told a piece of information that is blatantly fabricated (i.e. her boyfriend is cheating on her with her cousin) and it comes from a totally unreliable source (i.e. her social arch-nemesis) but she STILL believes it blindly and wholly and acts as if it is true... instead of just, you know, double-checking with someone (her cousin? her boyfriend? anyone!).

3) TV shows about a down-on-his/her luck middle class parent who has a really messed up and morally questionable habit/addiction/profession but WHOM WE TOTALLY LOVE ANYWAY!

4) Whenever a character uses a search engine and it's some weirdo Google rip-off with an insanely large font and 1998 aesthetic. (This applies to e-mail and texting, too - why is it so hard for TV shows to get technology right?!)

5) Subplots involving clones, characters getting conned out of money, or daddy issues.

3 comments:

*~Dani~* said...

I agree with all of the above. Although with #4 I have often thought it came to advertising/licensing. If they used "google" or anything looking like google, they would have to pay for it.

Nellie said...

HAHA I love 4--So true... it always has some huge font and they type letter by letter and everything is very square and clunky hahaha... we noticed that about some IM thing in a movie a few nights ago

Jamie said...

#1 and #2 make me think you have been watching soap operas or the Lifetime movie network. #3 makes me wonder if you have been watching Weeds.